Shopping in Spain

Seville

There are smaller artisan shops along with larger departmental stores. Often you’ll find little stores tucked away in the corner with great deals or selling original products, though it’s always better to head for the mall.

Stores are typically open from 9:30am-2pm in the mornings and then open again in the afternoon from 5-8pm. El Corte Ingles, the giant Spanish department store with just about everything you could imagine, is open all day from 10am-10pm. A few other stores - and it is a very few - are open all day. Some supermarkets such as SuperSol or Mas y Mas are open all day as well. Opencor, owned by El Corte Ingles, is open 365 days a year although it closes around 2am. The location closest to the center is on Paseo Colon near the Puente de San Telmo (bridge to Los Remedios).

The two parallel streets Sierpes and Tetuan are the main shopping areas , where you will find stores for just about everything: men's and women's clothing, shoes, ceramics, sporting goods, jewelry, posters and some of the general tourist stuff. The streets begin (or end) at Plaza Nueva/Plaza San Francisco where the "Ayuntamiento" (Town Hall) is located. From this direction you can head down Avenida Constitucion to the cathedral. The other end of Sierpes and Tetuan leads to La Campana and Plaza del Duque, where El Corte Ingles is located. This shopping district also spills out into the side streets going towards the Alfalfa and a few streets towards the river. Sierpes and Tetuan are often the best places to find clothing for such brands at such stores as Zara. A large bookstore, appropriately named La Casa del Libro, is located on Tetuan sells about anything you could want including guidebooks, literature and fiction in English. Passing La Campana you can also head up Calle Larana and find a few clothing and electronics stores.

Clothes, furniture, grocery store (with many hard to find food items), travel agents, tobacco shop, jewelry, tourist items, leather, hardware, perfume, toiletries, barber, cafe, optician etc El Corte Ingles has just about everything. There are three main locations where you can find this department store: Plaza del Duque, Plaza Magdalena and Nervion. In the center there are two locations: Plaza del Duque you will find the the main location including clothing, tourist gifts, books, sporting goods, a grocery store, a gourmet foods store, bakery, luggage, watches, jewelry, perfumes and toiletries. Across the plaza is another El Corte Ingles location with music, movies, cameras, computer equipment and accessories, paper/office supplies, mobile phones, audio and video (TV, VCR, DVD, stereo) and much more. Just down the street there is yet another El Corte Ingles location in the Plaza de la Magdalena where you will find kitchen wares, computer equipment and accessories, appliances, mobile phones, a supermarket, audio and video (TV, VCR, DVD, stereo) and more. Across Plaza Magdalena is the home department with beds and bedding, lamos, furniture and yet more. The location in Nervion has all of the above under one roof and is also next to a centro comercial, or mall. Basically El Corte Ingles has it all between the three locations and many locations overlap in their offerings. What the store doesn't have are the best prices for everything, but most things are reasonable.